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I hope to address that during this mandate, but it is a sensitive and complex legal issue on which we will need to take significant advice. We are keen to consider including it in the final Bill that we intend to introduce in the mandate.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Gillen Review: Implementation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Gillen Review: Implementation
Minister, in response to a question for written answer from me, you said that you were committed to proceeding with the reform of the reasonable belief defence in rape cases, as per the Gillen review. Specifically, will the reform that you are looking at include a change to the way in which a jury can ascertain in a…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Gillen Review: Implementation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Gillen Review: Implementation
It is not for the Department of Justice to maintain a record of people once they have exited the justice system, which is the last point of contact for which we are responsible; they then move into services that are provided by the Department of Health. It is important that we recognise that, once people have gone…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Gillen Review: Implementation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Gillen Review: Implementation
In reply to a recent question for written answer, the Minister admitted that her Department does not keep records of young people who have received support after their case has concluded. Will the Minister commit to changing that so that information is captured to enable us to better understand the whole process for…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Gillen Review: Implementation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Gillen Review: Implementation
That is, ultimately, a matter for the judiciary, in that it is a judicial-led protocol, but the fact that it has now been extended to under-16s across the board augurs well for our seeing it more widely extended. We would certainly support that. Importantly, there are other ways in which we can assist child victims,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Gillen Review: Implementation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Gillen Review: Implementation
When will we see the full roll-out of the under-13 protocol?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Gillen Review: Implementation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Gillen Review: Implementation
We are very committed to looking at the Barnahus-style model for Northern Ireland. There is a successful model in Iceland, there is one in Scotland, and there is now one in the South. It is something that we want to do. The joint working group completed some benchmarking of current relevant services against the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Gillen Review: Implementation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Gillen Review: Implementation
I thank the Minister for her comprehensive answer. It is widely accepted that establishing, as she mentioned, one child-friendly setting, where children do not have to repeat their story constantly, provides better support for child victims of sexual abuse. The Minister mentioned the Barnahus scheme. Will she give us…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Gillen Review: Implementation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Gillen Review: Implementation
My Department continues to oversee a multi-agency programme of work to implement the Gillen review's recommendations. That work includes progress against a range of recommendations intended to support child victims of serious sexual offences, including the ongoing delivery of a judge-led voluntary protocol to expedite…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Gillen Review: Implementation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Gillen Review: Implementation
The investment in that particular piece of work is not something that would be clawed back from the sale of the site. The structure has already been dismantled. As you know, we were able to use the site at the behest of the MOD, so no clawback is involved.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI: Capital Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI: Capital Budget
During COVID, the Department of Justice necessarily had to spend £4 million on a mass mortuary on the Kinnegar site. Upon the sale of Kinnegar, was there any clawback for the Department of Justice for that investment?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI: Capital Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI: Capital Budget
I am not sure how that question relates to the estates strategy for the PSNI, but, nevertheless, I am happy to answer it. The recent additional funding allocation of £39·3 million to my Department includes £36·7 million that has been allocated to the PSNI. The Member will be aware that the Chief Constable has welcomed…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI: Capital Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI: Capital Budget
I thank the Minister for her answer. Given her Department's recent allocation from the Executive of an additional £39·3 million, will police officers now get their pay award? How long will it take to see much-needed additional PSNI officers on the ground to relieve the pressure that serving officers are currently…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI: Capital Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI: Capital Budget
The management of the PSNI estate, including acquisitions, is entirely an operational matter for the Chief Constable, who is accountable to the Northern Ireland Policing Board (NIPB). I will, however, continue to work with the Chief Constable, my Executive colleagues and the Department of Finance to ensure that we…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI: Capital Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI: Capital Budget
I beg to move Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I welcome the opportunity to address an issue that is of immense importance to the agriculture community and has a far-reaching impact that affects farmers, families, our rural economy and, ultimately, food security. The motion acknowledges that bovine…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Bovine TB Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Bovine TB
Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am pleased with the consensus of support in the Assembly for these important regulations. I thank the Committee for Communities for its support and the positive way in which it has dealt with progressing the regulations. I will briefly address a few points that were raised. In…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: The draft Electrical Safety Standards for Private Tenancies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: The draft Electrical Safety Standards for Private Tenancies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
I do not sit on the Communities Committee. However, I find it a really worthwhile announcement by the Minister. As a party, we welcome and support the change. It is something that, given my background in the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, I am particularly passionate about. I met some of the electrical…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: The draft Electrical Safety Standards for Private Tenancies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: The draft Electrical Safety Standards for Private Tenancies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
I am getting flashbacks to my time on the Communities Committee as we scrutinised and prepared for the Private Tenancies Bill. Hopefully, Members will be patient with me. I am a wee bit cloudy on some of it. I rise to welcome these proportionate and common-sense measures, which will save lives and, certainly, reduce…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: The draft Electrical Safety Standards for Private Tenancies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: The draft Electrical Safety Standards for Private Tenancies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
I thank the Minister. I rise as a member of the Committee for Communities and as Alliance housing spokesperson. In the initial briefing provided to the Committee for Communities by Mark O'Donnell, deputy secretary with responsibility for housing and sustainability, he confirmed that the Department would bring forward…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: The draft Electrical Safety Standards for Private Tenancies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: The draft Electrical Safety Standards for Private Tenancies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
I rise as a DUP member of the Committee for Communities, along with my colleague Maurice Bradley. We welcome the fact that the Minister has brought forward the regulations to raise electrical safety standards for tenants in private rental accommodation. That is supported by the Committee, as our Chair said. The…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: The draft Electrical Safety Standards for Private Tenancies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: The draft Electrical Safety Standards for Private Tenancies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
I beg to move The draft Electrical Safety Standards for Private Tenancies Regulations 2024 aim to remove danger to life and to reduce the risk of injury and damage to property. The regulations therefore introduce five-yearly certified electrical safety checks of a private rental property's hardwired electrical…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: The draft Electrical Safety Standards for Private Tenancies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: The draft Electrical Safety Standards for Private Tenancies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
Minister, I welcome your statement in response to the assault by the Labour Party against some of the most vulnerable in our society, who depend on the winter fuel payment. You have confirmed that the new payment will be paid through the DWP system. If the payment does not arrive, should people contact DWP or the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Emergency Fuel Support for Winter 2024-25 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Emergency Fuel Support for Winter 2024-25
Yes, I can confirm that it absolutely is. I have scars from the experiences that we had during COVID. It is not easy to draft papers and put together a scheme, with an application and verification process. Getting such a scheme out would not only take more time but more work and more staff, which would cost more money…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Emergency Fuel Support for Winter 2024-25 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Emergency Fuel Support for Winter 2024-25
I thank the Minister for his statement and congratulate him for bringing forward the scheme. I have listened to some of the questions and heard some of those who will receive the payment coming up with all sorts of ideas because they do not want it. Of course, they are in the privileged position of not requiring it,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Emergency Fuel Support for Winter 2024-25 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Emergency Fuel Support for Winter 2024-25
I apologise. There will be people like her who want to give to someone else the resource that would have gone to their household. That would create an additional layer of bureaucracy in my Department, and the process of determining who is best placed to do that would be significant. There would be all sorts of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Emergency Fuel Support for Winter 2024-25 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Emergency Fuel Support for Winter 2024-25
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